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Updated: June 23, 2025
And indeed, so far as these particular birds of passage were concerned, the occupation was permanent, the judge having taken possession of the only shake-down sofa on the lower floor, and the warlike major having plumped himself into the middle of the colonel's own bed not ten minutes after his arrival.
"she'd die of loneliness. And she'd die of culture in the mater's highbrow establishment. Whereas, if you would take her in give her a shake-down here she wouldn't give much trouble " He stammered as even the most audacious young warrior must do when making so astounding a proposal.
To arrange some sort of bed for her was the next thing, and we made a good shake-down clean straw and blankets and a pillow, and the agent would have brought sheets; but though she would not have these, she did not resist what do you suppose? a looking-glass for next morning! And we got a bucket of water and her valise.
Just then I heard her calling out to me. "Hide!" I cried, "hide under the shake-down! Has he got you?" I heard her answer, and then the sound of a scuffle that maddened me. Knife in hand, I crept slowly about, and put my fingers on a man's neck and side. Next Polly Ann careened against me, and I lost him again. "Davy, Davy," I heard her gasp, "look out fer the floor!" It was too late.
The dining-room was occupied as a shake-down dormitory for women and girls, and breakfast was taken standing in the parlor or hall or anywhere places could be found outside of the kitchen where work was going on. When my bowl was handed me it was filled with the everlasting brown bread boiled in milk. That was brewis. I was just mad!
"I'd like to send you back as decent as I can." Pamela seemed satisfied. Then she and Duke knelt together at the side of the shake-down Diana called their bed, and said their prayers together and aloud.
He walked straight to the "shake-down" which he and his brother occupied, and drew from under the head of it a piece of rope he had placed there the night before. With this in his hand he came out again, and after looking up and down the road, to make sure that there was no one in sight, he went around the building to the kennel where Don's pointer was confined.
Was there no way to save Ray? I stood turning this problem in my mind, subconsciously aware of Cowan's movements: of his yells when he thought he had made a shot, when Polly Ann appeared at the doorway. Darting in, she fairly hauled me to the shake-down in the far corner. "Will ye bleed to death, Davy?" she cried, as she slipped off my legging and bent over the wound.
"Does get a bit on yer mind, if yer thinks about it," agreed the sentry. "How do you find him to talk to, like?" "Well," said the sentry, bringing his right leg into action for the purpose of relieving his left, "ain't 'ad much to do with 'im myself, not person'ly, as yet. Oh, 'e ain't a bad sort when yer know 'im." "That's his shake-down, ain't it?" asked the Imp, "where the lights are."
We find that we can do this, that is to say, we can provide coffee and bread for breakfast and for supper, and a shake-down on the floor in the packing-boxes I have described in a warm dormitory for fourpence a head. I propose to develop these Shelters, so as to afford every man a locker, in which he could store any little valuables that he may possess.
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